Sectional-stay wire fence.



PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908. G. E. MIRFIELD, SBGTIONAL STAY WIRE FENCE.

APPLIUATLUA i'LLL-U JUNE 10,1907.

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' Patented Jan.21,1908.

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Jones, one county of ill State of 8113013, have invented certain new and useful irnpnwcn:onto in ScctiouebStey Wire Fences, oi'wbicli the following s speciiicetiozi.

" is. practice to construct Wi'lilb is 'i'fidfilifiil s squa e mesh fence in which the strand" otnzneoted together by stay sires, I instances the stsy sections are in line, 0. w the other, end their ends ere coiled end-*iritsrooiled eround the strand wires, so so toforru, in effect, a continuous s the upper and lower border of the fenceyend another type "of square inesb fence is one in which the stay sections is srreuged in stsggered-relstion from the top or u per border wire to the bottom or lower border wire, and each stay section has its ends'coiled around two strand -wires. Either type oi square mes fence is open to the obieetion that in use, when subjedted tomoisture and atmospheric changes, the of the stay sections will rust on in course of time destroy the spsltor or other protec coating for the wire coiled around the strend wire, and with the spolter or pro-- teetive covering destroyed, the coil will be and. will, in time, trensinit'rust or longitudinal wires, destroying the bo y of snob wire, end cs'using serious end i ions effects on the fence. This rusting or oxidising of the coil of the stay sections s iroi'n the feet tbet the end of the stay section is not protected by the spelter, or other protective costing for the wire, ut is left "son to the eiiects of moisture and atmospheric changes. .Tllfi object of the present invention is to construct stsy sections in such manner as to prevent rust or oxidation from tskin place after the fence is in position, and to t is end the invention consists in o; istsy section having the body end each end. entirely covered and protectedby the speltcr, or other costing of protective materiel; and the invention further consists in e fence having the stay sections thereof made of wire, with the body and both ends ofeacli sectiou'oovered and protec ed. against moisture and atmospheric changes by acoating or covering of spelter, or other suitable protective materiel.

In the drawings illustrating the invention Figure 1 an elevation of e stay section of the present invention; Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of the some, with the body and both ends ofthe'wire covered and protected by spelter, or other suitable protective material; Fig. 3 a cross section of the stay of PAEN' BEIGE.

Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. 4 an elevation, showin it portion of a wire fence having longitudinn' or strand wires united, (mate the other, by the stay sections of the resent invention, with the stay sections in ine one with the other, forming, in effect, a continuous stay; end'Fig. 5 an elevation, showing a portion of a fence in which the stay sections are arranged in staggered relation, connecting-the strand or longitudinal wires.

The ste'y section of. the present invention is to be made from e continuous reel of wire, or otherwise, so as to be of-varyinglengths-to suit the spaces between the strand wires, where the strand wires are arranged with veiying distances between them.

ch ste section a'is formed of a wire I) of the desired e'ngt-h; and this wire has its body covered or coated with spclter, or other proteotive material 0, and has its ends likewise.

coated or covered with spelter, or other pro tective material d, as shown'by the heavy black lines in Figs. 2 and 3. The spelter, or other protective material, is preferably applied to the wire by the electro or electric costingv process, in which a current of electricity is-possed through the wirefrom end to end, and by its actions deposits the spelter, or other protective material, onto the wire, drawing the spelter, or other material, into the pores of the wire, so that in reality the. wire and the coating or covering of spelter, or otherin'sterial, are continuous, one with the other, fneking the union between the .two one which cannot be broken or destroyed in coiling the ends of the stay sections around the longitudinal or strand Wires.

The form of s uere mesh fence, shown in Fig. 4, consists 0 "a plurality of longitudinal or strand wires e, and the upper staysectiou and the lower stay section are united or attaclied to the upper borderwire and the" lower border wire, by a, coil f produced by coiling the end of each stay section a around the border wires, and for the intermediate longitudinal or strand wires the stay sections (1, at their overlapping ends, are intercoiled around the longitudinal or strand wires, so as to form a double coil f instead of e single coil f, as for the upper and lower border wires. The type of square mesh fence shown in Fi 5 also consists of a plurality of longitudinal or strand wires e,

which are connected together by stay sec-- tions at, with the stay sections arrangedin staggered relation, and with each end of each sta section coiled around a strand wire so as to orm a coil, f by which the stay section is attached to the strand'wires.

The stay sections a, {with the form offence shown in Fig. 4, and with the form of fence shown in vFig. 5 each lrav'e a coating 0 over the body, and a coating (1 at each end of the stay section, so that when the ends of each stay section is coiled around the longitudinal or strand wires, either in the form of a single coil or of an intercoil, the body of each stay section and each end of each stay section will be protected by the spelter, or other coating of protective material (1 against the eflect of moisture and atmospheric changes, with the result that the rusting or oxidation of the ends of the stay section is prevented,

and the destroyingof the coils and of the stay sections and the longitudinal or strand wires is likewise prevented. a

The coating or covering of the body and both ends of the stay section, by spelter or other protective materialf'is of great utilit in the manufacture of wire fences, as wit the entire stay section rotectedover its body and at each end by t e s elter, or other.

protective material, the liab1 ity of rust or the body and bothends thereof covered by a protective material against" the effects of moisture and atmospheric changes, substantially as described.

2. A fence, consisting of a plurality of strand wires and connecting stays, each sec tion of the stay having a coating of protective material applied to its body and both' ends, for preventing oxidation by moisture and atmospheric changes, substantially as described.

GEORGE MIRFIELD.

Witnesses:

OscAR W. BOND, THOMAS A. BANNING. 

